The event caught the party leadership off guard: that Lin – already enshrined into the Party Constitution as Mao's " closest comrade-in-arms " and " successor " – could betray Mao de-legitimized a vast body of Cultural Revolution political rhetoric.

The closest male blood heir at the time was William Clito, but instead of naming a successor, Henry turned his attention to fathering another child.

As Leo's closest male relative, he was named successor upon his grandfather's death.

Lin's position as Mao's " closest comrade-in-arms and successor " was recognized when the Party constitution was formally revised to reflect Lin's future succession.

I declare my legitimate successor in all my kingdoms, states and dominions, the Electoral Prince Maximilian Joseph, only son of the Archduchess Maria Antonia, my niece, and Electoral Duke of Bavaria, who was also the only child of the Empress Margaret, my sister, who married the Emperor, my uncle, first the line of succession to all my kingdoms, by the will of the king, my lord and father, as claimed by the laws of those kingdoms, as has been said ; the exclusion of the Queen of France my sister wherefore the said Electoral Prince Joseph Ferdinand as sole heir of this right, a man closest to me in the most immediate and direct line, is my legitimate successor in all of them ...

#* Significance: Held at the culmination of the " Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution ," Mao's Party is decimated from infighting ; People's Liberation Army ( PLA ) influence on Party administration pronounced ; few members appointed to power during the previous Party Congress survive the 9th Congress politically ; former State Chairman and second-ranking Liu Shaoqi ( arrested 1966 ) and former CPC General Secretary Deng Xiaoping labelled " traitorous scabs and renegades "; Defence Minister Lin Biao becomes CPC Vice Chairman and Mao's " closest comrade-in-arms ", and is designated constitutionally as Mao's successor ; Mao's " thought " reinserted into CPC Party Constitution.

In boundary changes agreed in 2006, the Vale of York constituency was divided up leaving no obvious successor ; the seat with the closest identity to it was Thirsk and Malton which was the successor to Ryedale, held since 1987 by John Greenway.

After Feodor's death, his brother-in-law and closest adviser, boyar Boris Godunov, who had already acted as regent for the mentally-challenged Feodor, was elected his successor by a Great National Assembly ( Zemsky Sobor ).

Marinescu's closest collaborators were Ion Minea ( with contributions to neuroinfections ), Anghel Radovici ( with whom Marinescu described the kinn reflex, author of the monograph La Syphilis nerveuse, 1928 ), Nicolae Ionescu-Siseşti ( who was his successor as head of the department, author of the monographs Tumeurs Médullaires, 1929, Syringobulbie, 1932 ), State Drăgănescu ( author of the book Lichidul cefalo-rahidian ( The Cerebrospinal Fluid ), 1932 and of the monograph Encefalite Virotice Umane ( Human Viral Encephalitis, 1962, with Arcadie Petrescu ), Oskar Sager ( Head of the department after the death oh N. Ionescu-Siseşti in 1954, author of studies on the physiology of the thalamus with J. G.

Sunnis believe Abu Bakr, one of the early converts to Islam, Muhammad ’ s closest companions, adviser and father-in-law, was his first successor.

Additionally, there was no clear successor to Wingate even among his closest followers.

The closest equivalent to a " successor " to Avco Broadcasting was Multimedia, Inc., to whom Avco sold flagship TV station WLWT, as well as Avco Embassy Television and Avco Embassy Program Sales in 1976.

As in most balanced binary trees, the deletion of an internal node can be turned into the deletion of a leaf node by swapping the internal node with either its closest predecessor or successor, depending on which are in the tree or on the implementor's whims.

Alvaro del Portillo was the closest collaborator of St. Josemaria Escriva in the government of Opus Dei and became his first successor after Escriva died in 1975.

The Kia-based Entourage is the closest thing to direct successor, but it is only available in a limited number of markets.

And of course the news of who the composer was did finally begin to get around among his closest friends.

She was the sun, he the closest planet orbiting around her, the rest of the world existing and visible yet removed.

Palmer's 281 for the four rounds at Augusta was a comfortable four strokes ahead of the next closest pro, but it was barely good enough for a second-place tie with Coe.

a man who was most dangerous of all to those who were his closest collaborators in crime.

He was the foremost politician and churchfather of Denmark in the second half of the 12th century, and was the closest advisor of King Valdemar I of Denmark.

Capone was called " Snorky " by his closest friends.

* Protagonist Right ( Destra Protagonista ), headed by Maurizio Gasparri and Ignazio La Russa, was the bigger faction and the closest to Forza Italia, due to its liberal-conservative stances.

It was during this period that Victoria began to depend on her servant John Brown, a local ghillie from Crathie who became one of her closest companions during her long mourning.

In a 1958 letter to a friend in West Germany, Paternak wrote, " She was put in jail on my account, as the person considered by the secret police to be closest to me, and they hoped that by means of a grueling interrogation and threats they could extract enough evidence from her to put me on trial.

The closest rival to Angkor, the Mayan city of Tikal in Guatemala, was between in total size.

Libya was previously one of the former president Patassé's closest allies, providing him with strong military support when he no longer trusted his own military or France.

The 2006 national election was expected to be a landslide for former President ( 1986 – 1990 ) and PLN's candidate Óscar Arias, but it turned out to be the closest in modern history.

A paper published in the Journal of Democracy states this was the closest that the Cuban opposition could come to asserting itself decisively.

The microfibrillar structure of adult tendon, as described by Fraser, Miller, and Wess ( amongst others ), was modeled as being closest to the observed structure, although it oversimplified the topological progression of neighboring collagen molecules, and hence did not predict the correct conformation of the discontinuous D-periodic pentameric arrangement termed simply: the microfibril.

Of all of Gauss's children, Wilhelmina was said to have come closest to his talent, but she died young.

He was the best drummer I had ever played with and for many years, my closest friend.

The closest school was about two miles ( 3 km ) away and Barks had to walk that distance every day.

Third, the closest high school to their farm was five miles ( 8 km ) away and even if he did enlist in it, his bad hearing was likely to contribute to his learning problems.

Lyell was also a friend of Darwin's closest colleagues, Hooker and Huxley, but unlike them he struggled to square his religious beliefs with evolution.

During his recovery from a heart attack late in 1955, he huddled with his closest advisors to evaluate the GOP's potential candidates ; the group, in addition to his doctor, concluded a second term was well advised, and he announced in February 1956 he would run again.

Diderot, who had been under police surveillance since 1747, was swiftly identified as the author ... and was imprisoned for some months at Vincennes, where he was visited almost daily by Rousseau, at the time his closest and most assiduous ally.

Four singles were released, with " Frank " closest to being a hit.

During the 19th century the area closest to Ljungby itself consisted mostly of sand without any vegetation, and the government released funds to plant trees which would tie together the sand and make it suitable for plants.

Soon after " Say Hello Wave Goodbye " dropped out of the chart, Soft Cell released a brand new song, another love song / ballad called " Torch " which was to prove the closest the band ever got to having a number one hit with one of their own songs as it entered straight into the top ten and peaked at number 2.

The closest thing to a serious examination of noodling accessible to popular culture was a documentary released in 2001 called Okie Noodling, directed by local documentarian Bradley Beesley.

The result of the judicial recount was released on October 31, 2008, when it was announced that Braid was the victor by a mere 17 votes, the closest race in the country.

The closest may be a " conscience vote " ( sometimes referred to as a " free vote "), in which members are released from party ties and allowed to vote as they wish on especially controversial issues.

If it was an attack then they were released at a specific degree of rotation closest relative to the target " — Paul Bryant, Source: B5Scrolls ( 2008 )

Fifty years later, Black Bolt is released from cryogenic stasis to find that Maximus has killed those closest to him.

Holding a Wolf By the Ears was released on April 9, 2007 as the last album for the band's contract to Vagrant Records, and according to Mark, is " heavier than anything we've ever done " and the " closest we've come to capturing how I think this band should sound.

Unfortunately, the closest Lepage came to another top 10 was a 12th place finish at Lowe's Motor Speedway in the Coca-Cola 600, and was released from the ride after the Brickyard 400.

" was released in 1996 and quickly became a fan favorite and the closest thing to a live Pietasters show.